§ The result
Draup and Mercer | Mettl tie at 42.
Draup (Sourcing) and Mercer | Mettl (Assessment) tie at 42 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Draup leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Mercer | Mettl 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Draup takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Draup 48, Mercer | Mettl 38), which is 51% of the weighted advantage Draup holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, Draup 58 to Mercer | Mettl 45.
Vendor profile
Draup
Draup is an AI-powered talent- and sales-intelligence platform that aggregates over a billion public professional profiles into skills, roles and labour-market analytics, and surfaces ranked candidate shortlists for enterprise workforce planning and recruiting.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Draup is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercer | Mettl under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercer | Mettl is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Draup | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Draup 48 · Mercer | Mettl 38
2.0 weighted points to Draup
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Draup 33 · Mercer | Mettl 42
1.6 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Draup 58 · Mercer | Mettl 45
1.6 weighted points to Draup
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Draup 28 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.2 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Draup 25 · Mercer | Mettl 28
0.4 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Draup 57 · Mercer | Mettl 52
0.4 weighted points to Draup
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Draup 54 · Mercer | Mettl 55
0.1 weighted points to Mercer | Mettl
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Draup minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Draup | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 42 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 42 (F) | - | +0.5 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Draup | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Draup has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Draup sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Draup, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Draup last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next